Legal Futures reports that BPTC and BVC graduates will be among the first to be eligible for exemption from elements of the LPC, should they wish to convert to the solicitors’ side of the profession.

Dentons, Mishcon de Reya LLP and Stevens & Bolton LLP have all revealed revenue growth for the 2023/24 financial year.

Many young lawyers would like firms to embrace technology and transform outdated working practices in order to operate more like commercial businesses, according to new research from Eversheds.

The bodies representing solicitors, barristers and chartered legal executives have pledged to “achieve gender equality in the senior ranks” by getting firms and chambers to sign up to specific gender targets.

The National Accident Helpline has launched the Future Legal Mind Award 2016, an essay competition open to undergraduate law and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students. 

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has launched its inaugural National Awards to celebrate the best and the brightest among its members. Among other things, the awards will recognise those who have promoted access to the profession, shown leadership, and championed diversity and inclusion.

Getting into the spirit of the season, BPP Law School has launched a spooky new website aimed at encouraging students and others to share their scariest tales of interviews gone wrong and emails fired off in haste.

A legal research website which relies on crowdsourcing and user ratings for its content was launched last week.

The Law Teacher of the Year Award 2011 has gone to University of Westminster professor of law and theory Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

Dentons has made a donation of £48,000 to support three undergraduate bursaries at Queen Mary University of London’s (QMUL) School of Law.

US law firm Skadden’s London office has partnered up with The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) in a bid to support the next generation of ‘social justice’ lawyers.

In this brand-new LCN podcast episode, LawCareers.Net’s Niamh Gray (they/them) teams up with leading lawyers Danni Davies (Latham & Watkins) and Michael Tushingham (Gowling WLG (UK) LLP) to discuss what it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in the legal industry. 

The winner of the LawCareers.Net and LittleLaw essay competition has been announced as Kendal Boyd for her essay on “What is the most important thing to you when choosing your future law firm?”.

The Bar Standards Board has decided to regulate advocacy-focused alternative business structures, legal disciplinary practices and barrister-only entities.

Short and sweet this week; a handful of interesting business-driven news stories that you should know at least a small bit about.

City firm Fladgate LLP has introduced a voluntary scheme offering approximately 30 real estate lawyers the option to work a four-day work week from January to March this year.

In contrast to the Solicitors Regulation Authority's reported plans for England and Wales, the Law Society of Scotland has announced that the minimum pay for trainee solicitors in Scotland cannot go below the national minimum wage of £6.08 per hour.

The social mobility charity Aspiring Solicitors Foundation has secured a number of leading law firms and companies as founder members ahead of the foundation’s formal launch in January 2020.